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Follow the Money: Declared Donations, Gifts and Hospitality in UK Politics
Energy
Economics
Every donation, gift, meal, ticket, paid-for trip and paid job declared by MPs and peers since 2019, every donation to the political parties, and ministers’ meetings, gifts and hospitality, traced from who gave it to who received it. Focus on the energy industry, environmental groups, law or any sector, see who had dinner with whom, or drill into any sector, donor, party or politician.
Please read before using this. Everything here was declared by the people who received it: MPs and peers in Parliament’s registers of interests, parties to the Electoral Commission, and government departments in their releases on ministers’ meetings, gifts and hospitality. Declaring a donation, a meal, a meeting or a paid job is what the rules require. It is not evidence of wrongdoing, and nothing here suggests that any person or organisation acted improperly.
This dashboard shows the evidence that is publicly available, gathered and classified automatically, so it will contain errors: a donor matched to the wrong sector, an entry counted twice or missed, a value read wrongly, or an estimate that is off. Each row links to its original entry. Check that entry before you rely on anything here, and before you make any claim about a person or organisation. If you find a mistake, let me know.
What to show
Kinds of money
Options
Who had dinner with whom
Over time
Who got the most hospitality
Every entry
Where this comes from, and its limits
Sources.
- MPs: the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, read from TheyWorkForYou’s fortnightly copies of it since January 2019.
- Parties: the Electoral Commission’s register of donations to parties, central and local, since January 2019.
- Peers: the Register of Lords’ Interests, from Parliament’s Members API.
- Ministers: every department’s quarterly release of ministers’ meetings, gifts and hospitality on gov.uk, and the Cabinet Office’s monthly central register of ministers’ gifts and hospitality.
- Parties and posts at the time come from mySociety’s parlparse data.
What’s counted. From the MPs’ register: employment and earnings, donations and other support, gifts, benefits and hospitality, and visits abroad. From the Lords register: paid roles, sponsorship, visits abroad, and gifts and hospitality. Shareholdings, property and unpaid roles are left out. From ministers: meetings with outside organisations, and gifts and hospitality received; overseas travel is left out because the government pays for it. Register entries stay on the register for a year or more and appear in every copy, so entries are de-duplicated; when an entry was corrected, reworded or re-declared after the 2024 election, it counts once, using the latest version. A donation to a local party that the MP also declared counts once, as the MP’s, with a link to both. A ministerial meeting listing several organisations counts once for each.
Values and estimates. Values are as declared; where an entry gives several amounts the largest is used, which is usually the total. Paid work is counted from the payments declared. Roles declared only as a rate (“£X a month”, or the new register’s yearly, monthly or quarterly agreements) are estimated as the rate times the months the role ran since January 2019, from the start date the entry gives (or when it was registered) to the end date it gives (or the last register it appeared on, or today). These are marked “est.” and can be wrong if the rate changed or the role ended early. Peers don’t have to give amounts for paid roles, and rarely do for gifts, so most Lords entries add to the counts but not the £.
The Lords and history. The Lords register only shows current interests, so entries a peer has since removed aren’t available. Each rebuild of this page keeps a dated copy, so from November 2026 on removed entries are kept.
Ministers. Releases list a minister’s meetings and hospitality by month or day, depending on the department; where only a month is given, the entry is dated to its first day. Coverage depends on what each department published and on how the gov.uk search finds the release; a few departments and quarters may be missing. Ministers are shown under the governing party at the time.
Sectors. Energy organisations, and some 400 other well-known companies, trade bodies, unions and public bodies, are on hand-checked lists with a sector and sub-sector each. Companies that merely share a word with one are excluded: JB Drax Honore, an insurance broker, is not Drax. Other companies take their sector, and their sub-sector, from their Companies House industry (SIC) code, by company number where the declaration gives one, or by exact name where it gives a company name. Think tanks, campaign groups and international forums are hand-listed, because many of them are registered charities or companies too; “Registered charities” means a donor found on the Charity Commission’s register for England and Wales that isn’t on those lists. A person’s donation is shown as theirs, not their employer’s. Environment, nature and climate charities and campaigns are hand-listed too, and shown as their own sector rather than as charities or campaign groups.
Groups across sectors. The “Focus on” menu also offers two groups that cut across sectors: environment and climate groups, and law. Each is built from the sectors and sub-sectors above plus some hand-listed names, and the note under the menu says exactly what it includes. Every sector can also be chosen on its own.
Not yet included. Lords entries removed before November 2026; all-party parliamentary groups; and donations to MPs reported only to the Electoral Commission. Scottish and Northern Irish charities aren’t on the charity register used.
Corrections. Sector and payer matching is automatic and will sometimes be wrong. If you spot an error, please get in touch with the entry’s source link and I’ll fix it.